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To: SunkenCiv

Let’s hear it for those Conquistadors!


3 posted on 01/23/2008 11:05:54 AM PST by Eepsy (The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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To: Eepsy
Let’s hear it for those Conquistadors!

Oh yes! The rack and strappado used by the Inquisition were such 'civilized' ways of enforcing religious belief!

6 posted on 01/23/2008 11:20:12 AM PST by Bernard Marx
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The Mayan civilization crashed, burned and depopulated long before the Conquistidores showed up.

A persistent Bermuda High off the coast served to stop rainfall in the Yucatan for a couple of hundred years.

20 posted on 01/23/2008 4:25:48 PM PST by muawiyah
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